BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Marci Harris DTSTART:20260930T160000Z DTEND:20260930T170000Z DTSTAMP:20261002T164422Z UID:Metagov/299 DESCRIPTION:Title: Popvox (Civic Tech for Public Servants)\nby Marci Harris as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThis seminar will feature Marci Harr is\, the Cofounder/CEO popvox.com AND popvox.org\, both with mission “to inform & empower people & make government work better for everyone."\n\n\ nPopvox is a civic technology company founded by former legislative staffe rs. We know the realities of serving in a legislative body\, and we build accordingly.\n\n\nPOPVOX Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonpartisan nonprofit org anization with a mission to help democratic institutions keep pace with a rapidly changing world. Through publications\, events\, prototypes\, and t echnical assistance\, the organization helps public servants and elected o fficials better serve their constituents and make better policy.\n\nMarci will introduce her broader work\, but will take this opportunity to indulg e her nerdy passion / irrational obsession with CSPAN\, "a great example o f an industry coming together to voluntarily commit to funding public serv ices.”In this blog post from 2023\, she observes that in the broadcast t o cable transition\, companies supported a public interest version of thei r platform. No similar effort emerged with the rise of social media. That ’s a mistake AI should learn from.Marci is a really incredible lawyer an d former Congressional staffer who is still trying to make the First Branc h work for the 21st Century. Let’s welcome Marci to Metagov Seminar.\n\n More about Metagov Seminar: The Metagov Seminar invites individuals work ing in online governance to present their work to a community of other res earchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include\, but are not limited t o\, computational tools for governance\, governance incidents and case stu dies from online communities\, topics in cryptoeconomics\, and the design of digital constitutions.\n\nThe seminar is intended for researchers and p ractitioners in online governance\, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/299/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR